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Cataclysmic Binaries Containing a Black-Dwarf Secondary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H. Ritter
H. Ritter*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-8046 Garching, Fed. Rep. Germany

Abstract

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Cataclysmic binaries with a black-dwarf secondary can in principle be distinguished from those containing a low-mass main-sequence secondary because of the differences of the corresponding eclipse light curves. However, due to the very low intrinsic luminosity of the systems containing a black dwarf, the probability of detection turns out to be smaller than the corresponding probability for an ordinary cataclysmic binary by about 1.5 to 3 orders of magnitude. Therefore, despite the fact that the predicted space density of these objects is quite high, systems containing a black-dwarf secondary must remain essentially undetectable.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 72: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1983 , pp. 275 - 278
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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